“Scott Nearing Attacks «sumption. VOL. XVII, No. 5 WAYNE AND BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNBSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1930 PRICE. System of ‘Capitalism Sociologist Attributes War and Unemployment to This Growing Evil. _ ADVOCATES COMMUNISM A goodly audience gathered in the Common~Room tast-Friday: evening~ to hear Scott Nearing, sociologist and au- thor, speak on the subject of Communism in. America, under the auspices of the Bryn Mawr Liberal Club. Mr. Nearing’s | extreme opinions and forceful presenta- tion made his talk very interesting and called forth a broadside of questioning at its close. system, which» necessitates» war’ and“ un- employments, and then went on to relate the history of American labor and to prophesy its future. The speaker began by telling of the new relation of the worker to his job since the Civil War. -With the growth of the factory system has come a greater and greater increase in the number of wage .workers and a more and more definite separation of production and con- It has devéloped a mass pro- letariat utterly dependent on capitalists for their jobs and- utterly dependent on yobs for their living. Of the thirty-four million workers of this proletariat, five or six million are ‘now unemployed. They ‘must go to the bread lines for food for we have no. dole or unemployment insurance in this coun- try. They are dependent, it seéms, on a system incompetent to care for them. Capitalism can only produce unemploy- | | carry. on ment; and the more Capitalism> the greater will be the unemployment. Cap- italization has been increasing enormously. In 1914 the year’s Dividends on, stocks were $1,200,000,000, in 1930, a. bad year, the dividends for January alone were $1,- 000,000,000. Some of these dividends go for luxuries but the great part are rein- “vested to swell further the amount of American capital. In 1850 there was $560 capital per worker; today there is $6000. As capital per worker. increases the: worker must produce more and more to bring the manufacturer a profit. This means more rationalization of industry, more machinery, more exploitation of the individual worker, more technological un- employment. A time must come when a ’ tithe of the workers can produce all that can be profitably distributed. The fault is not that of the individual capitalist but of a system in which production is for profit. ; To prove his statement that “the more capitalism there is, the more unemploy- ment there will be,’ Mr. Nearing called attention to ~conditions in the United States and in Great Britain. America’s new industries, rayon and rubber tires, for example, are running well, but in the | old industries, such as coal and textiles, where Capitalism has had its best chance, there is unemployment and economic stagnation. Similarly Great Britain, the oldest capitalistic country, is economically the sickest. Her new industries have grown but the old ones are even less pro- ductive than in 1913. Not only is the ‘worker in cgnstant fear .of unemployment under the capital- istic system but he must also expect to be called.out to die and kill in periodic wars stirred up in the interests of the ruling classes. It will probably be a war and not unemployment that will be the crucial test of the development of com- munistic sentiment: . Since the French Revolution the turning point in govern- ment has been war. At“ the third International Communal at Moscow it was said that three things were needed for the spread of commun- ism ;., weakening of the power of the rul- ing class, worsening of the conditions of the masses (they are now worse than ever before inthis country), and trained, revolutionary leadership. This leadership is needed because the worker is almost inarticulate. eo, Bc, The. American worker has ‘tiot always been so docile, however. After the Civil War the communistic groups were mostly |. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4. _ mie PA |All Saints’ Day Spirit He first attacked the Capitalist Jonly goal of the first half. = Interpreted-hy Dr. Mutch “What shall they do which are bap- tized forthe dead?” quoted Dr. Mutch from the Restfrection. argument of Saigt Paul, at Sunday night chapél in Goodhart. The message of All Saints’ Day, a day full of significance and spiritual value, contains the answer. Although All Saints’ Day was last Saturday, the atmosphere remains, per- vading all November with ‘its “spirit and message. First, there is the, sig- nificance of the “great cloud of heav- enly: witnesses.” Prior to the seventh calendar for each great saint. By then, because there was hardly a day left, or perhaps because they were tired of distinguished persons, it was decided to. have-one day forall; not-only the great and famous, but also for the un- known good, “the shining host of those who have passed on.” Secondly, the heritage which we en- joy ‘today has come down to us at great cost. Reaping where we have not sown, are the result of the toil, struggles, and sacrifices of past years. The Pilgrim Fathers paid for the blessings and privileges of religious freedom, truth, and faith in God. The patriots of the Revolution and the Civil War paid the price of our political heritage. Effort, ure arid success in experinsent, sweat of mind, body, and soul, are all the cost of the common conveniences of tod... Our debt to the past calls for some payment in the present. The dead must not have died in vain. We must grasp. the tools, seize the flag, ‘and their tasks to completion. “Whatever our patrimony, whatever good, we are stewards, and it is re- quired of stewards that they be faith- ful.” “Be true to the past, to your- self, to your home, and to God,” con- cluded. Dr. Mutch, “unless we give back to the world something costing us blood and agony, we shall have failed miserably to pay: our debt.” Merion Cricket Club | ‘Defeated by Varsity Before a handful of the ever faith- ful, Varsity, on Saturday, defeated Merion, 3-2.. A steady improvement in the playing of the team has been noticed from week to week and grad- ually co-ordination is linking the play- ers together. The forward line played a scrappy game, fighting back for the ball when- ‘ever ‘necessary. The wings were very fast and passed in nicely. Sanborn on several occasions carried the ball down to the goal and then made beautiful back passes which were net put in because the rest of the line were not quick enough on their shooting. -Allen, having picked up her speed again, was very much better on her passing but it is still a little bit late. She was continually attacking the goal and rushing in on others’ shots and her efforts were rewarded when she put in a rebound from a nice shot by Long- acre. Longacre with fast running and clear dodging and passing several times -got the ball down within the striking circle but her shots- were too soft to go in and were frequently stopped by the goalkeeper; however, she made the Moore, although a little slower than the rest of the line, was always in place when a pass was made to her. Her shoot- ing was undoubtedly the best of the forwards, hard and fast. After a nice made a hard shot for goal’ and then rushed the rebound; in the ensuing scrimmage with the goalerand-_a_full- back, she managed to push the ball in. _ Harriman, subbing for Woodward, played her best game so far and greatly hindered the attempts of the opposing wing. Although Collier was missed at centre half, Collins did a good job and sure. For Merion the wiiventiig player CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 _ century, there was a special day in the things most precious to us labour, and painful-thought, mixed fail- | carry in from the twénty-yard line, she: in her place; Rothermel at full was fast 104 Students Enrolled in Graduate School Dean Schenck Compares~Hén- ors Work of Undergradu- ates to Graduate Study. PH.D. HOLDS NO TERRORS _——. The. graduate school this year has 104 members, as against 102 of last year, thus maintaining its place among the various student. groups, second in numbers only to the Freshmen. The number of resident graduate stu- dents.-is. limited. by. the capacity of Rad- nor Halt, fifty-nine all told. Of the re- maining forty-five students, sixteen have some official connection with®the college— instructors, readers, demonstrators, ward- ens, Sixty-fivé of the 104 students are ‘giv- ing all their time to graduate work. Among the others who are giving part of their time to other occupations, the teach- ing group is naturally the largest, seven being- instructors, two demonstrators, one a reader, here at Bryn Mawr; two: teach- ing at other colleges and thirteen at schools in the neighborhood, _ The graduate students —come , - from twenty-three- States, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Canada and five Eu- ropean countries: France, two; England, two; Germany, Holland and Hungary, one. : The States represented are: Pennsyl- vania, thirty-six; New York,, thirteen; Massachusetts, seven; New Jersey, six; California, four; Indiana, four; Kansas, three; Vermont, two; Ohio, two; Iowa, two; Illinois, two; Maing, Connecticut, ‘Rhode Island, Maryland, South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Washington, Idaho, ‘Nebraska, Missouri and Arkansas, one; District of Columbia, one; Hawaii, one; Canada, two. ‘Ninety-eight American ‘or’ Canadian degrees, B.A. or B.S., are held by mem- bers of the Graduate School, six Euro- pean degrees, The foreign universities represented are: Amsterdam, Budapest, Cologne, Lau- sanne, Nancy and London School of Eco- nomics. Forty-nine different colleges or universities in America are represented by graduate students. Of these, thirty- nine are co-educational, fourteen are women’s colleges, and three are women’s colleges Affiliated with universities. Al- ‘though there are more than twice as many co-educational universities repre- sented as women’s colleges, whether indi- vidual or affiliated with universities, slightly more than half of the students come from women’s colleges. The largest block, twenty-three in: all, .received the A.B. degree from Bryn Mawr. The num- ber of students who received their first degree from other institutions is as fol- lows: Mounty Holyoke, .seven; Smith, six; Wellesley, four; Barnard, Hunter, Mills, Vassar, Pennsylvania (University of), three; Boston University, 3rown Uni- versity, California (University gf), Pa- cific (College of), “Randolph » Macon Women’s, Northwestern, two. Thirty-one other colleges and universi- ties-are each responsible for the Bache- lor’s degree-of one student. In addition to the Bachelor’s degree, forty hold Master’s degrees, eighteen of ley, Pennsylvania (University of), Cor- nell, 2; Brown University, California (University of), Columbia University, Florida State’ College for ,|Women, George Washington University, Illinois (University of), Maine (University_ of), lin, Ohio State, Radcliffe, Rochester (University of), Vanderbilt University, one. in the school this year have announced their intention of becoming candidates for the Master’s ee, twenty-four for the Doctor’s degree. * |. <=<“CONTINUED- ON. J (Dean Eunice Morgan Sthenck was the speaker in Chapel on Thursday, Oc-. tober 30.) these given by Bryn Mawr, and Welles-- Middlebury College, Michigan. (Univers- | Pity of),. Nebraska (University of), Ober- Thirty-one*of “the students registered’ | ‘My Flight into Egypt’ Described ‘by Miss Park “*My Flight into Egypt’ really only resembled the original in its extreme quickness,” explained President Park in her chapel speech on Tuesday, No- vember 4. She reached Alexandria in less than two weeks after leaving bleak New York. Here was the first glimpse of the melodramatic: green. ‘cultivated lands against their desert background, an anomaly which is found throughout Egypt. » The low-lying meadows. are separated~by_ dykes, over which pass the village roadss—From the train a perpetual procession of~ anen__ and animals in silhouette can be. s@en on these roads. Cairo is a: niodern, crowded, con- fused city in the heart of an ancient city. But» Miss ~~ Park's party found Egypt again in a trip up the Nile past the second cataract. In this country the color effects are peculiarly inter- esting—the rushing yellow river with its curious colors under sunrise or. sun- set light, the bright green on the edge of the river with the brighter yellow of the desert behind it. The country leaves an impression of being com- pletely alien, its landscapes are strange to the Northern mind. There is no place where one gains a sense of per- petual tradition, for the only remaining buildings are temples concerning them- tselves with ‘worship and” death, daily. life. These temples are really the chapel of the tomb of. some rf or noble, -and intimately connected Qithé death. The buildings of course vary in the extent of their preservation, in ‘| their. location on a bluff or near the river, and in actual age some of them being as late as the sie Augus- tus. The beauty of the country is largely associated with the sky, which is not detracted from by tall growths. There is little color at midday; otherwise from the early hours of morning until sunset-there-is-afeeling—of-moving—in strange lights, although there are no brilliant cloud effects. Everything takes on a red, yellow, or green. hue from’ the sunset. Even under the moonlight the color of the red cliffs and green trees ig apparent. The stars are large, low-hanging and amazingly bright, and the Southern Cross, shaped like a huge diamond, is visible every night. Miss Park’s party visited the temple of Abu Simbel which is entirely built inside a eliff, with only the facade, decorated by huge seated statues of Rameses, on. the outside. She and a friend spent the night outside the tem- ple, watching the river and the moon- light. The first tight of dawn passed from the mountain tops to the facade of the temple, which faced due East, and the faces of the statues seemed to change their expressions and move, as 2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 Earn a Trip to Europe The Intercollegiate Travel Bureau wishes to ‘find, a student organizer at Bryn Mawr. Whoever is chosen for the position will have an unequalled opportunity to earn a trip to Europe, a‘considerable amount of money,. or both. The terms are as follows: 1. Free trip for enrolling ten mem- | bers in any: one. conducted tour.